Seahawks used the two weeks ahead of the Super Bowl to diagnose the Broncos down to Manning’s eye movements. Now it’s one week. 43-14?
Author: Art Thiel
Art Thiel
Never having met a metaphor he could not twist beyond recognition, Art has been illuminating, agitating, amusing and annoying Puget Sound sports readers for a long time. Along with Steve Rudman, he co-founded Sports Press Northwest because it didnt seem right that the Google monster should aggregate daily journalism into oblivion without at least a flesh wound from somebody. Thiel and Rudman labored under the Seattle Post-Intelligencer globe until the print edition died an undeserved death in March, 2009. Art continued on at its online successor seattlepi.com while working on SPNWs creation. His radio commentaries can be heard Friday and Saturday mornings and Friday afternoon on KPLU-FM 88.9. In 2003 he wrote the definitive book about the Seattle Mariners, Out of Left Field, which became a regional bestseller. In 2009, along with Rudman and KJR 950 afternoon host Mike Gastineau, Thiel authored The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a cross between historylink.org and Mad Magazine that has become mandatory reading for any sports fan who has an indoor bathroom. A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University as well as two dead papers and a live one, the News Tribune of Tacoma, he has become a fan of entrepreneurial online journalism because it allows him to continue a lifelong passion to take the English language to places it rarely visits willingly, and does not involve the cleaning of kennels or stables.
The macho code of ball precludes coaches and athletes from saying the heat was decisive, but Seattle’s defense was out there for 75 plays to 40. We’re not stupid.
Asked if CB Marcus Peters has done what he was supposed to do upon his return from a one-week banishment from Huskies football, coach Chris Petersen said, “For the first six hours, yes.” For anyone who has had to train a dog (or a Dawg), that’s known as a short leash.
Defensively vulnerable against Chargers QB Philip Rivers, the Seahawks defense melted from the temps and the pressure Sunday in San Diego.
Huskies LB Shaq Thompson was everywhere Saturday in Washington’s domination of Illinois, the first time UW has put together a complete game.
Huskies coach admits to being bewildered at times by players not knowing the right thing to do. CB Marcus Peters figures to know from now on.
MLB commissioner Bud Selig, the stealer of the Pilots, passed through Seattle on his way to retirement, blessing the Mariners as the season’s surprise team.
WR Bryan Walters will take over for FS Earl Thomas, who fumbled a punt in the opener and is just too eager to run when a fair catch is often the smart decision.
A law enforcement official says he sent a video of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee to an NFL executive three months ago, while Commissioner Roger Goodell and league officers have insisted they didn’t see the violent images until this week, according to a story Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Goodell again demonstrates tone-deafness in his NFL stewardship. Would it be asking too much for a leader that is neither liar nor fool?